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Somewhere between February and March, the U.S. Navy lost nine ships. The web page where the service lists its vital statistics — including number of people, number of ships, etc. — showed a fleet of 284 ships on Feb. 27. But on March 2, the page listed only 275 ships, according to a Defense News report. But no real ships were decommissioned, sold, sunk or otherwise disposed of. So what happened? Last year, the Obama administration changed the way it counts the fleet, adding ships that were previously not counted. The resulting fleet jumped from 283 ships to 290, the report said. Opponents on the Hill cried foul, the News said, arguing the Navy was inflating its size,...

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